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Avon, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98273. It stands on Gages Slough. The Survey maps it on the La Conner quadrangle. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Avon within Skagit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Avon between 1994 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Fireworks4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROTTEN DOG
10 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCLEO ROSE
5 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeGUNDERSON
27 July 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersQUARRY
26 July 1996Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 July 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 July 2003Fireworks1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Avon: 9 unknowns, 4 producers, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Asbestos, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BurlingtonAsbestosPast Producer
BurlingtonStoneOccurrence
BurlingtonPalladiumUnknown
Mount VernonStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Northwest Talc and Magnesium Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Allied Aggregates & Asphalt PavingSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bar Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Commercial Excavating Co., IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Concrete Nor'West PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Skagit County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mount Vernon2.8 miles21
Fredonia3.5 miles19
Burlington3.6 miles21
Chuckanut Junction3.8 miles21
Skagit City4.1 miles21
Whitney4.9 miles19
Allen5.1 miles14
Rexville5.9 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AvonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4829173The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1515995. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.